Producer Wyck Godfrey reveals the Gears of War movie will be set like Cloverfield, where Earth deals with Emergence Day, at zero hour. The "hard part" says Godfrey, is not to just cast the film as a beaten up world with "people just in battle". Better to show us okay, then not.
Epic and Capcom have got their heads together and decided it'd be fun to have Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago take a vacation. Except they're not in some fancy resort, but as DLC for Capcom's Lost Planet 2. They're exclusive to the Xbox 360, and for online only.
Epic are showing us gamers 'love' with Gears of War 2 giving out double points next weekend for Valentine's Day, in two modes at least. Wingman and Horde support this outpouring of affection, along with double points for reviving fallen comrades. Epic picked fan ideas.
Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski has teased many Gears of War fans out there that their studio does games in threes, he "don't know why" though. It's just what they do. Gears of War 3 is an inevitability - you know it, Epic knows it. That's all the Bleszinski had to say, so when's it coming Cliff?
Edge cites a US publishing source that April 8th will debut a Gears of War 3 trailer, with a full reveal for Epic Games' next instalment at E3. Microsoft is "keen to avoid a clash" with Halo: Reach says the source, meaning it could be completed this year but held off until April 2011.
April next year is said to be the release date for Epic Games' Gears of War 3, but now whispers speak of Killzone 3 also hitting April. So far it's believed the latest Guerrilla Games instalment for Killzone supports both 3D and PlayStation Move, with a winter date hinted at.
The team behind the popular Gears of War franchise are taking their chainsaws to Japan, Famitsu.com reports. According to the publication, this new expansion will hopefully strengthen Epic's language support for Unreal 3 games, like Square's Last Remnant...
Epic Games' dreams of an epic scale Gears of War flick have just stumbled, again, as the studio and producers look to scale back the project. Its $100m budget is said to be getting much lighter, with attached director Len Wiseman no longer helming the chair. The studio wants a rewrite.
Tomorrow Epic Games man Cliff Bleszinski will be on the Jimmy Fallon show (it's a US thing), and is expected to spill major gaming beans. It's heavily rumoured that this will be a Gears of War 3 announcement. Bleszinski says he should "bring something interesting" to the show.
If there's one thing the internet does well, it's blow the whistle. The game hasn't even officially been announced yet, and already details for the highly anticipated third Gears of War game are emerging. EDGE Online, citing a "trusted publishing source", has spilled the beans on what we can apparently expect from Gears of War 3.
Forget EDGE's article, we now have an official announcement! It seems someone over at Microsoft is about to be in very very deep trouble, as an advertisement for Gears of War 3 has just shown up on the 360 dashboard.
Epic Games has confirmed that Gears of War 3 is coming for the Xbox 360 and will be released in Europe on April 8, 2011. This will be the grand finale to the “Gears of War” trilogy. "When we released "Gears of War" more than three years ago, we set out to tell the world an unforgettable story of bravery and sacrifice in the face of insurmountable odds, and a year from now, players will get the chance to experience the final chapter in the story of Marcus Fenix and his companions in Delta Squad," said Cliff Bleszinski, Design Director at Epic Games. "This is definitely the biggest and most dramatic chapter yet in the "Gears of War" saga, and we can't wait to deliver it."
Epic has confirmed that prominent Sci-Fi writer Karen Traviss is writing a novel for Gears of War 3, along with two others that will follow. Traviss has so far written two books set in the Gears universe.
A Russian games magazine has an eight page spread for Epic's Gears of War 3, detailing some of the improvements and spilling locations. One such shot in the mag shows a man-made island, which is where the game will mostly be taking place it's believed. We also get a big mech!
The latest issue of Game Informer magazine dishes the latest dirt on Epic's Gears of War 3, like the names of two new squad mates for Marcus. Revealed also is the awesome digger launcher weapon, which fires subterranean "piranha-like" critters to seek and devour. Plus new Locust.
Epic Games president Mike Capps says the reason they up and left PC development was because of all that PC piracy, plundering revenues. Six years ago they were totally a desktop studio, with about one PS2 title while "everything else was PC." They followed the money to console.
Developer Epic Games have revealed what changes will be made to Gears of War 2 once title update 6 goes live, with the list proving meaty. The biggest improvement appears to be joining "in progress" Social Matches, and being able to leave "without penalty", though you get no XP.
The latest gossip from Game Informer has them blabbing the profiles of Marcus Fenix and his new frontline squad mate Anya Stroud. Stroud was previously just a dispatcher, but now she's ready to fight. It's "presumed" says the site, that they're also romantically entwined?
Developer Epic Games and Microsoft have announced that the latest Title Update for Gears of War 2 is finally out the door, sprinkling goodness. Social matches allow users to jump in and out of matches easily, and social matchmaking lets parties join in new or ongoing games. Go get it.
Back in 2009, in April to be precise, Ice-T confessed his desire to be in Gears of War 3 to Epic's Cliff Bleszinski, who joked there "will be a part". In a recent Ustream episode, Ice-T himself blabbed online that he 'was involved' with Gears of War 3, quickly adding: "I didn't just say that." Hmmm.